HP omen 17 inch USB port transfer rate less than 50MB/s

[BlessedByAurora]

The product page for the HP omen 17 in gaming laptop that I purchased in 2020 states that it should have 3 superspeed USB ports capable of max 5GBPS signaling rate, which I thought relates to file transfer rate? However, when copying large files (>5GB) onto external hard drives that are USB3.2 (comes with teal blue USB ports on their respective cables), the transfer rate has never exceeded 80MB, the average is about 30-50 MB. When I look up USB port color codes, I learned that 5GBPS ports are generally blue, however, the USB ports on my HP laptop are black. Is HP adopting a color scheme different than the industry standard?

[Huffer]

Its not an industry standard I have seen Blue Black and Yellow USB 3.0 port center bars, although Blue is probably most common. So you are talking about Megabytes per second as opposed to megabits per second? In the real world, USB 2.0 would do about 30 Megabytes per second on a good day and USB 3.0 on a good day will do in the low 100s. The transfer speed depends on the speed of the target device. If its a mechanical hard drive 7200 rpm you will get slower speed than transferring onto an SSD for example, even when transferring over a USB 3.0 bus. The weak link determines the max speed. 80 Megabytes per second is a bit low but in the zone of what you would expect.  The 30-50 is low, I agree